You've just been given your very own battleship!

[thejboy88]

I would call mine the Hadrian.

Rome's best emperor.

 

[Da Orky Man]

First, given that they are mostly obsolete, I'd refit it with the railguns that both the UK and US navies have been testing. I'd like to see someone call THAT obsolete.

Than, I'd call it the HMS Foundation. For the simple reason that I can stand on the bridge, and give the order, "Forward, the Foundation".

 

[StormShaun]

Mine shall be called the S.S NO Dice, since you aint got any Dice...ahaha

make it a spaceship too...

 

[zeropike]

Give me a Space based Battleship, and I'd name it Ryoko. After my all time favorite, space pirate and anime cutie.

Earth ocean based Battleships are so... old hat. Space is where its at.

 

[SH4DOWSL4Y3R]

JSS Doomrainbow, the finest purple, red, green, blue, orange and yellow battleship to sail the seven seas.

 

[spectrenihlus]

Battleship?! Battleship?! How antiquated can you get, Mr Pizza?! Navies only really operate aircraft carriers, submarines, multi-task destroyers and missile cruisers in this day and age. =P

Yep... even the Royal Navy got rid of them in the 60s... this was the last one http://www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk/vanguard.htm ... cruise missiles and the like have really changed the game.

But whatever. I'd call it the Yamaha 2, just to send autistic otaku into spasms over how I'd "got it wrong".

The US used the Iowa class Battleships until 1992

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa_class_battleship

With a good anti missile defense system the ships are still pretty powerful. If I had one I would plant it off the coast of Somalia.

(And also a similar comment about their use in the Gulf War)
I get your point that some navies used them a fair bit more "recently", but still... that's almost 20 years ago, man. I was in primary school at the time. Riding around in the back seat of my mother's original Fiat Panda. This is like saying to people something like "you've just been given your own B17 bomber" when the latest models are all mid-60s jets. And they were probably on the way to the scrapyard at the time, but pulled out of mothballs for one last jolly as the forces were a bit low on naval support before the newest generation were fully on-line.

True but their cannons were the largest ever built and still powerful use them as a show of force off the Somalian coast and I guarantee people would think twice before becoming pirate.

Yea it's overkill but you know what they say about overkill...

 

[Jakub324]

HMS Biatch Killer, then go and shell Lyon or something, I dunno.